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Anonymous wrote:Is someone from Duke admissions paying people on this thread? Duke isn't elite. I don't know anyone who considers it to be so, either.

True Dook is just a basketball school. Actually not anymore after ratface left, terrible season this year and they're only going to get worse from here.

Do you Duke haters have better things to do? It’s astounding how Duke lives in your head rent-free given your dislike for the school, it’s starting to sound vain. Would happily send my kid to Duke over many ivies

Duke and ND haters on this board..."Duke is a basketball school...ND is a football school." Yes they are, but they are also academic powerhouses. How amazing to have elite sports AND education.

Agreed about Duke. ND is pretty much a football school with a big endowment.

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Anonymous wrote:I think posters here are confusing Harvard with UVA when discussing STEM

They both are bad at STEM.

There isn't a school in the world ahead of Harvard in the science and math part of STEM.

Berkeley is a close second and doing it with less money and less support and other disadvantages. Berkeley might even have more graduate programs in the top ten across all academic areas than Harvard already given how weak Harvard is in engineering and CS.

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious LACs in my experience have been Barnard and Wellesley, not Williams and Amherst.

Lmao. Barnard is widely viewed as a backdoor into Columbia.

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious LACs in my experience have been Barnard and Wellesley, not Williams and Amherst.

Lmao. Barnard is widely viewed as a backdoor into Columbia.

Only on dcum

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious LACs in my experience have been Barnard and Wellesley, not Williams and Amherst.

Lmao. Barnard is widely viewed as a backdoor into Columbia.

Can a college that only educates women really even be compared to a co-ed institution of comparable quality?

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious LACs in my experience have been Barnard and Wellesley, not Williams and Amherst.

Lmao. Barnard is widely viewed as a backdoor into Columbia.

Only on dcum

No... in real life, sadly.

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious LACs in my experience have been Barnard and Wellesley, not Williams and Amherst.

Lmao. Barnard is widely viewed as a backdoor into Columbia.

Only on dcum

No... in real life, sadly.

These real life people sound insufferable.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think posters here are confusing Harvard with UVA when discussing STEM

They both are bad at STEM.

There isn't a school in the world ahead of Harvard in the science and math part of STEM.

Berkeley is a close second and doing it with less money and less support and other disadvantages. Berkeley might even have more graduate programs in the top ten across all academic areas than Harvard already given how weak Harvard is in engineering and CS.

Only at the graduate level. Not for undergrad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think posters here are confusing Harvard with UVA when discussing STEM

They both are bad at STEM.

There isn't a school in the world ahead of Harvard in the science and math part of STEM.

Berkeley is a close second and doing it with less money and less support and other disadvantages. Berkeley might even have more graduate programs in the top ten across all academic areas than Harvard already given how weak Harvard is in engineering and CS.

Only at the graduate level. Not for undergrad.

Berkeley offers better and more realistic environment with much more diverse groups of people (including more poor people) than Harvard for undergrads.

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Anonymous wrote:The most prestigious LACs in my experience have been Barnard and Wellesley, not Williams and Amherst.

Lmao. Barnard is widely viewed as a backdoor into Columbia.

A school with an 8% acceptance rate is not a backdoor

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Top 25 uni
Top 5 LACs
Williams/Amherst is about equal to Emory. Wellesley to UVA. That's it.
Bowdoin is not high enough doesn't have cashe in any particular field.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think posters here are confusing Harvard with UVA when discussing STEM

They both are bad at STEM.

There isn't a school in the world ahead of Harvard in the science and math part of STEM.

Berkeley is a close second and doing it with less money and less support and other disadvantages. Berkeley might even have more graduate programs in the top ten across all academic areas than Harvard already given how weak Harvard is in engineering and CS.

Only at the graduate level. Not for undergrad.

lol Berkeley is one of the "six global superbrands"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think posters here are confusing Harvard with UVA when discussing STEM

They both are bad at STEM.

There isn't a school in the world ahead of Harvard in the science and math part of STEM.

Berkeley is a close second and doing it with less money and less support and other disadvantages. Berkeley might even have more graduate programs in the top ten across all academic areas than Harvard already given how weak Harvard is in engineering and CS.

Only at the graduate level. Not for undergrad.

lol Berkeley is one of the "six global superbrands"

Only because it's public.

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone from Duke admissions paying people on this thread? Duke isn't elite. I don't know anyone who considers it to be so, either.

True Dook is just a basketball school. Actually not anymore after ratface left, terrible season this year and they're only going to get worse from here.

Do you Duke haters have better things to do? It’s astounding how Duke lives in your head rent-free given your dislike for the school, it’s starting to sound vain. Would happily send my kid to Duke over many ivies

Duke alumni put a target on their back by obnoxiously trumpeting how good their school is. The response is never going to be great.

I’ve literally never heard a Duke alum talk about their school outside the context of basketball… they have school pride for sure but not in a “we’re academically better than everyone” way

Duke is bad but UVA grads take the trophy on being obnoxious and delusional in acting like UVA is top 5.

I know lots of both. They're both pretty equal. And you'll know where they went to college within the first 2 min of meeting them. That's for sure. True of both alumni of these schools.

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1.HYPSM
2. Columbia, Penn, Duke, UChicago
3. Northwestern, JHU, Caltech
4. Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Vanderbilt
5. Rice, WashU, Notre Dame, Emory, UCB, Williams, Amherst
6. UCLA, NYU, USC, CMU, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley
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